Play Poker On TV As Loose Cannon In Poker Stars Big Game
Poker Stars has already brought us one groundbreaking opportunity to play high stakes poker on TV against some of the game’s greatest with FOX television’s PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge. And now they’re rolling out another, in The Big Game, also to be shown on FOX, with round 1 online qualifiers running now through June 25.
The big difference between The Million Dollar Challenge and The Big Game (besides one being a heads-up competition and one being a cash table game setting) is that the latter is a deep stacked event, with far less left to chance than skill.
Except for the Loose Cannons sent by PokerStars to sit beside the poker celebrities in The Big Game, everyone else sitting in will have to pay a minimum buy-in of $100,000 (maximum of $500,000). The blinds will be set at 200/400 with an ante of $100. The format of The Big Game will mostly be six-handed Hold’em with Pot Limit betting rules pre-flop and No Limit betting rules after the flop. We say “mostly” because PokerStars has said they’re leaving things open to change as The Big Games play themselves out.
All you have to do to land yourself an opportunity at being cast as one of the Loose Cannons competing against the pros like Barry Greenstein, Vanessa Rousso, Chris Moneymaker, and the headliner of the already wildly successful PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge, Daneil Negreanu, is wind up in the top 200 of any of the round 1 PokerStars The Big Game qualifiers.
Play will be made more exciting for both the players (pros and Loose Cannons alike) as wel as the TV audience because PokerStars and FOX have thrown in several twists into the competition, many of them involving the amateur Loose Cannon, who will start each session with $100,000 and is required to play the entire session.
